For decades, investors have had to play by Wall Street’s rules. Markets open and close at fixed hours. Settlement takes days. Access to certain funds is restricted to the few who can afford high minimums and middlemen. Securitize was built to change that.
Now, the Miami-based fintech that helped BlackRock put U.S. Treasurys on the blockchain is going public through a merger with Cantor Equity Partners II, a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald. The deal values Securitize at $1.25 billion and positions it to become the first publicly traded company built entirely around tokenizing real-world assets.
“Tokenization is what everybody’s talking about … but there’s nobody publicly traded that does it,” founder and CEO Carlos Domingo [pictured above] told CNBC. “We will do well in the public market because people want to index themselves to tokenization the same way that people are buying Circle because they want to index themselves to stablecoins.”
“We believe that blockchain technology has massive potential to transform finance, and partnering with Securitize underscores our confidence in tokenization as a foundational force in the next era of capital markets,” Brandon Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and Chairman of Cantor Equity Partners II, commented in a statement.
If it works, Securitize could do for digital asset infrastructure what Coinbase did for crypto exchanges: give investors a public benchmark for a fast-growing industry that’s been waiting for its breakout moment.
The combined entity, Securitize Corp., will trade on Nasdaq under ticker SECZ, with shares expected to debut as early as January. The deal includes roughly $465 million in gross proceeds: $225 million from private investors such as Borderless Capital and Hanwha Investment, and $240 million from the SPAC’s trust account.
Behind the hype is a clear trend. Tokenized U.S. Treasurys have soared to about $8.6 billion in market value, up more than 200% in a year. The broader tokenized asset market has jumped 135% to $35 billion, according to data provider RWA.xyz. Citi analysts project it could swell to nearly $4 trillion by 2030.
Securitize already claims about 20% of that market, thanks to partnerships with BlackRock, Apollo, Hamilton Lane, KKR, and VanEck. Its tech allows these firms to record ownership of assets on a blockchain, giving investors the ability to trade around the clock and reduce administrative friction. Domingo said the company has even been profitable in recent quarters – a rarity in the crypto-adjacent world.
He’s betting that public markets will reward that discipline. “The crypto industry needs to consolidate,” Domingo asserted. “If you’re publicly traded and you have access to stock capital markets as well as cash, you can be on the side that is consolidating and not be consolidated by somebody else.”
The company was founded in 2017 with a simple premise: modernize how ownership is recorded. “There’s $400 trillion out there of assets that could potentially be tokenized,” Domingo said.
“Within the next five to ten years, you will see everything on-chain, because it’s just a better ledger.”
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